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Editors Note: This editorial and the subsequent three papers, ‘Alzheimer's Disease in Poland’, ‘Sexual Expression and Dementia’ and ‘Prevalence of Dementia in a Rural Setting: A Report from India’, reflect the output of the 1994 Xth Alzheimer's Disease International meeting in Edinburgh in 1994, emphasizing the international experience of the disorder in self-help groups in Eastern Europe, difficulties of epidemiological studies in India and the complex interplay between staff attitude and residents' sexuality in nursing homes in the USA. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Graham et al. (Tue,) studied this question.